Sorry to reply to my own post but I forgot to mention a safety point for the above mentioned firecrackers.
DON'T make em.
These firecrackers are BIG!! ( approx 4-5 feet in diameter blinding white explosion plus loud bang and smoke cloud )
I made up this mixture when I was 13 and stupid(er). It it were safe and stable fireworks makers would prolly use it ( which I've never heard of ) so it will likely go off while you are mixing it. I was sent to the hospital with burns by a 1 cubic centimeter sized UNCONFINED bit. So something this big would blow you to bits and/or make you into a regular Freddy Krueger crispy critter.
This information and other explosive recipes is already available on other sites. So I accept no responsibility for idiots who make this stuff
Once a long time ago when I was a thirteen year old, I used to make firecrackers out of KNO3+S+Mg + green rocket engine fuse + masking tape + business reply cardboard from magazines.
I bought the chemicals plus some concentrated sulphuric acid mail-order from Chem-Lab supplies the name of that company being given to me over the phone by the guy I called to order instructions for making your own rocket engines out of the back of Boys Life. This was before there was such a thing as the Internet for mere mortals.
Now I hear ( from totse.com ( no relation to goatse.cx ) ) that Chem-Lab supplies was shut down for selling drug making precursors, but there are may other chemical supply houses that sell to ameturs on the web.
I remember watching that old war movie ( forgot the name sorry ) where they blow up a Nazi heavy water plant and being amused that I could purchase heavy water from my Chem-Lab supplies catalogue for 14.95/liter.
State legislators ha! What a bunch of nincompoops and losers. They're the people who can't get better paying jobs at Burger King flipping hamburgers. Why trust such people more than the public at large? At least the public has a real job for the most part.
Why not copy what works and what is out there? It would be like slamming GM for copying Ford by using round wheels on their cars and not using something more original. Ford copied wagon makers who in turn copied Roman chariot makers who in turn copied cart makers who got the idea from watching huge stone monoliths being pulled over round tree trunks greased with squished papayas.
GM's use of round wheels on cars is nothing more than a copy of a copy of a copy of a...
Flying Bynites are approaching
Watch out for the Saucers!!
( I thought the saucers were the hardest. )
MUCH better than Defender.
And the speech synthesizer ( my neighbor had it not me:-( rocked! It sounded better than anything I've heard since!
16 K of PURE POWER!!!
And I could draw cool houses with PRINT statements in TI BASIC!
Load from casette player and play music tapes too!!
Adventure ruled too. ( The mongoose must've been a squirrel! HA! )
Great fun for my Kidnerdgarten-First Grade years...
Where are the Journals & Articles?
on
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Sounds great. Free and open science jornals, but the content seems non-existant so far..
Hmm maybe it was oversheltering. I read somewhere recently ( i think it was something about mice on newscientist.com or maybe a slashdot story ) that the fear and gullibility centers of the brain are one and the same, but i would think someone with damage to that area would either be very fearful and not gullible at all or very gullible and reckless..
Nothing wrong with my family. I grew up loved and in a happy middle class home, instilled, at a young age with a strong sence of morals.
However, like many others I learned the standards of acceptable behavior towards others my age was completely different than the standards when there was an authority figure around and became disillusioned as far as my peers were concerned by their own behavior. This by being the victim of the shenanigans of others in elementary school and even at that camp. I felt justified in pulling the same shit that had been pulled on me at one time or another on anyone who would fall for it.
As I got older and went to junior high school my opinion of humanity got lower and lower as I was generally they guy that had books smashed over his head and beat up or smashed into walls or lockers, and mocked by girls.
I couldn't even ride the bus by the spring of seventh grade because I would always end up bloody and/or in trouble - my parents had to give me rides to and from school but I tormented anyone who I could at school despite the fact that it was often done to me, that is I hurt anyone who had it even worse than I did because it felt good not to be on the bottom of the shit pile. School is like prison. People go in good and come out monsters.
By the end of eighth grade I sincerely wished for pain and suffering on the whole world. To this day, I don't much care what happens to people I don't know.
I won't go into high school for certain reasons.
After college ( where I thrived because it is completely different from public school. The people who go there want to be there so there is no prison like atmosphere and people act normal ) I had become less angry and while I don't care much if people I don't know live or die, I don't wish them any particular harm either. I have a life now and happiness and would rather do normal things with the people I love than be some comic book supervillian.
But I still think that the biggest problem with K-12 school is that it is mandatory and full of students who don't want to be there. That makes the administrators set the standards for the lowest trouble making denominator ( like in prison, a similar place where the inmates don't want to be there ) Everything in school and in prison is regulated for people who need a cork on their fork to eat without poking their eye out; both are full of petty rules creating resentment towards the authorities and a desire to make more trouble which in turn causes the administrators to make more petty and oppressive rules causing more hate. And there is no avoiding people you don't like when you can't leave forcing confrontations that would be avoided in the real world.
If school was optional, then the trouble makers who don't want to be there would leave, and come back when they figured out they needed an education to get by in the world with a sincere interest in learning.
At the YMCA summer camp I attended at about age 10, one of my fellow campers, Joe was abnormally afraid of things that nobody else would be afraid of. We used to harass him whenever he was around and we were bored.
One of the things we did was to tell him that we heard him say a swear word and that we were going to report him to the counselors. He would then start crying and saying that he didn't say a swear word, pleading and begging for us not to do it. No other kid at camp would have fallen for this since the counsellors were just stoned out college students working a summer job, and would have said 'yeah whatever' to any such tattle tale. We did this same trick to him dozens of times and would consistently get the same desperately fearful response.
We also used to say 'Boo' to him alot. He would always jump and scream. One did not even have to sneak up on him before saying 'Boo!' to get him to jump. It would work even if he was looking right at you the whole time. If you waited five seconds or so you could 'Boo' him again and he would always jump.
Sometimes we would chant 'spiiiiders' or tell him there were maggots or other bugs on him to get him to squeal real loud. Or rock the canoe. Once he crapped in his pants when some kids did that.
He never seemed to learn that our lame tricks were just tricks and he was very afraid of anything that could remotely be considered scary.
Once I asked him if he was retarded or something because I didn't want to be picking on a retarded person. It was against the moral code I had set for myself, and even offered to kick some asses for him if he was retarded, but he insisted that he was not retarded. I don't think he was retarded since he was normal in other ways but fear and gullibility.
So I tormented him guiltlessly with the other children. I figured that this guy must have been over sheltered or something by his parents and that he needed to learn stop being such a wuss if he was going to survive in the world even if it meant a few tears.
But over sheltering doesn't explain his extreme gullibility and inability to learn to detect the lame pranks we repeatedly tortured him with.
Of course my ( and others ) callous cruelty was inexcusable regardless of whether he admitted to having a certified disease like mental retardation. He was too soft a target for our boredom inspired harassment, and I regret taking part in it. But maybe this is understandable to anyone who has read Lord of the Flies
Kids are cruel to anyone who is different and there were others that got picked on like the time at a sleep over when about 20 kids lined up to jump off the porch railing onto an unfortunate sleeping fat girl who wouldn't wake up from sleeping no matter how many World Wrestling Federation moves the other children tried on her sleeping bag covered body.
I suspected someone would get in trouble so I bugged out early after a few shoves and yelling GET UP a few times, but watched as kids beat on her for a half hour before she finally awoke coughing and crying - barely able to breathe.
Only one kid got in some trouble for that because he was there when the counselors came.
My question for slashdot readers is: Does anyone know of a disease that could make Joe the way he was? Over fearful, socially gullible but otherwise normal?
Can't look at Modragon all google hits seem to be in french. Did you mean to search fo mondragon?
Still foriegn language.
depends on how they have been indoctrinated (umm. socialised)
Typical of a socialist, looking at people from above as if they were stupid animals that can be manupulated with ease by superior social engineers It is impossible to socialize or brainwash people into doing and thinking certain things by changing a few laws. People nowadays can read you know.
Socialism refers to an economic system where the capital (the "means
of production") are controled by those who actually do the work (the "workers")
This is impossible.
If one day it magically happened then one of two things would happen depending on circumstances( like laws )
1) The workers would be in competition with each other, and some would win out by either gaining positions of power where they could control the resources ( think communist bigwig party men manager types in the old soviet union ) and use that power to increase their own standards of living at the expense of the rest. They would find ways to leverege their power to provide their children with enough advantages to ensure that they could outcompete the children of those under them this forming a new oppressive class system.
2) Normal capitalistic processes processes would allow some lucky and most likely ruthless workers to become wildly successful.( for luck, ruthlessness, and the stupidity to take bad risks that just may turn out very well are the most common attributes of wildly successful people ) These workers would use their capital to amass more capital. Most of the equally stupid and ruthless worker businessmen would have by then lost the capital they started out with by committing the sin of being unlucky and would now need jobs, so they would work for the few ex workers who were lucky, stupid and ruthless enough to strike it rich. Those with money would use their wealth to confer advantages to their children such as wealth and education that would make them able to assume their places in upper class society and easily outcompete the vast majority of the children of the less affluent worker class. Thus creating a new oppressive class system.
If you set property rights as the rules of the game of life, people will seek monetary advantage over each other. If you use force ( ie laws ) to try to impose different rules of the game then people will play according to the rules of that regime in order to gain advantage over each other. To the extent that you try to compromise, people will compete over what advantageous niches are available to them from which they can get as much as they can.
There is no system that can stop people from trying to get what they want.
The conventional approach is to take deuterium - a harmless, stable
isotope of hydrogen that has a neutron as well as a proton in its
nucleus, and heat it to many millions of degrees. This strips away the
electrons from individual atoms, leaving a soup or "plasma" of positively
charged nuclei and negatively charged electrons. At these temperatures, a
small proportion of the nuclei have enough energy to fuse with each other
when they collide, forming a highly energetic neutron and nuclei of
hydrogen, tritium and helium-3 in the process.
Sometimes researchers use a mixture of deuterium and another isotope
of hydrogen, tritium, which has two neutrons and a proton in its nucleus.
This reaction results in a far higher number of neutrons but tritium is
highly radioactive and difficult to handle. In either case, the big
problem is how to keep the plasma contained. It is much too hot for any
ordinary container to withstand, so it is held in place by a magnetic
field.
Source: http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/neutron.htm
I think there is a 50% chance of fusing deuterium to make tritium and a neutron and a 50% chance of fucing deuterium to make helium 4 and a gamma ray
Future headline: Cold fusion has been reproduced by three labs using a Kenmore room fridge.
The discovery was made by chemistry students who accidentally let the pressurized gas out of their acoustic beer cooler and replaced it with the only thing they had on hand a tank of pressurized deuterium. Since the tone producing chip ( a common 555 timer ) of the fridge was smashed by the same idiot who fell over and knocked the tube assembly and the students were too plastered to drive to Radio Shack, the students routed Aretha Franklin's famous R.E.S.P.E.C.T track through the sound circuitry creating fusion.
The three cooked ramen noodles on the heat exchanger of their fridge and smoked some weed but were suprised when the tuble started to glow red and finally burst making a small hydrogen fireball in their dorm room.
The next day the students were all very sick and were admitted to the hospital where they were diagnosed with radiation sickness. Sadly the two that sat in the room next to the cooking noodles died within 48 hours, but the third went back into the room and studied the device. Under more controlled circumstances, he has found that other CDs do not produce neutrons or excess energy and that fusion doesn't start until the first round of 'Sock it to me Sock it to mes'
That trilogy is like one long book split up into three megachapters so they aren't too heavy to hold and read. You'll have to accept the miniseries format because 3 hours is a long time for a movie.
Since the cover of my old copy of TTT has those two kings that the movie Fellowship ended with before Merry and Pippin got snatched, I always thought the two towers were those two kings. Oh well.
If there is a market for support of a piece of open source software someone will provide support for a price. As for closed source there is only one company with access to what is needed to truly support the software - namely the source.
As for Windows mandatory upgrades being cheap in comparison to a sys admin I say how many mission critcal windows servers are without a highly paid sys admin to watch bug reports and apply fixes? Sure there may be lots of MS access servers used by a few people here and there that don't get much attention but I'll bet the Exchange servers at your company ( if you run that piece of shit - and there expensive support isn't very great either. They know less about exchange than I do with isn't much but still more than I ever wanted to - no I am not the admin ) I'll bet there are a few people at your company paid primarily to babysit the exchange servers.
Sure M$ can point to maintenance tools and say that there in theory SHOULD be no maintanance costs so that studies like this can write a zero on their balance sheet and make M$ look good but in reality Windows servers definately need administration and babysitting. I would say that a decent unix admin could handle the problems and hickups of five or more times as many servers than could a decent Windows admin because there are just less problems to begin with.
I always just gave them a fake name and address. Or that of an enemy. I used to sign my next door neighbor up for the Fox 51 Kid's Club over and over again. Also, you can subscribe people to magazines ( like pr0n ) with no money. All you need to do is fill out the business reply card and no CC# is necessary! Imagine subscribing your badass biker neighbors to Cat-Fancy. Subscribe your boss to Hustler and have it sent to him at the office.
Regardless of the fact that a mother has more rights over a child, both the mother and the father have equal legal responibility for a child. Men ( idiots excepted ) do not go around having sex with strange women as if the consequenses to them of getting a girl pregnent were nothing. This isn't the 1800's.
Men know that the consequences are dire if they get a woman pregnant. It could adversely affect the rest of their life. Most women are bimbos though it takes a while to figure that out sometimes. Most are too stupid to do something simple like take a pill every day. ( this is not sexist since most men are bimbos too and are also too stupid to do something simple like take a pill every day )
In our culture sex often comes before you know the person enough to trust them about something as important as birth control. At least with a male pill there will be some assurance for men that there will be no unwanted pregnancies when a woman says "Don't worry I'm on the pill"
Having no popups/popunders on your site will make the banner ads more visible, and more likely to be clicked. It will also increase the number of people that use your site since I never surf a site with popups/popunders with anything that allows them. Why sell pop-space at a premium when you can sell banner ads at a premium since they are not covered up with annoying popads?
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I bought the chemicals plus some concentrated sulphuric acid mail-order from Chem-Lab supplies the name of that company being given to me over the phone by the guy I called to order instructions for making your own rocket engines out of the back of Boys Life. This was before there was such a thing as the Internet for mere mortals.
Now I hear ( from totse.com ( no relation to goatse.cx ) ) that Chem-Lab supplies was shut down for selling drug making precursors, but there are may other chemical supply houses that sell to ameturs on the web.
I remember watching that old war movie ( forgot the name sorry ) where they blow up a Nazi heavy water plant and being amused that I could purchase heavy water from my Chem-Lab supplies catalogue for 14.95/liter.
State legislators ha! What a bunch of nincompoops and losers. They're the people who can't get better paying jobs at Burger King flipping hamburgers. Why trust such people more than the public at large? At least the public has a real job for the most part.
GM's use of round wheels on cars is nothing more than a copy of a copy of a copy of a ...
I agree. Isn't there a freedom of information act? I want a boatload of wet bricks from the 1870s
Flying Bynites are approaching Watch out for the Saucers!! ( I thought the saucers were the hardest. ) MUCH better than Defender. And the speech synthesizer ( my neighbor had it not me :-( rocked! It sounded better than anything I've heard since!
16 K of PURE POWER!!!
And I could draw cool houses with PRINT statements in TI BASIC!
Load from casette player and play music tapes too!!
Adventure ruled too. ( The mongoose must've been a squirrel! HA! )
Great fun for my Kidnerdgarten-First Grade years...
Sounds great. Free and open science jornals, but the content seems non-existant so far..
Just downgrade them to stable. They're PRE RELEASE builds ya know. They might not work right...
We can ask anything and when we stop asking our questions will be answered.
Hmm maybe it was oversheltering. I read somewhere recently ( i think it was something about mice on newscientist.com or maybe a slashdot story ) that the fear and gullibility centers of the brain are one and the same, but i would think someone with damage to that area would either be very fearful and not gullible at all or very gullible and reckless..
However, like many others I learned the standards of acceptable behavior towards others my age was completely different than the standards when there was an authority figure around and became disillusioned as far as my peers were concerned by their own behavior. This by being the victim of the shenanigans of others in elementary school and even at that camp. I felt justified in pulling the same shit that had been pulled on me at one time or another on anyone who would fall for it.
As I got older and went to junior high school my opinion of humanity got lower and lower as I was generally they guy that had books smashed over his head and beat up or smashed into walls or lockers, and mocked by girls.
I couldn't even ride the bus by the spring of seventh grade because I would always end up bloody and/or in trouble - my parents had to give me rides to and from school but I tormented anyone who I could at school despite the fact that it was often done to me, that is I hurt anyone who had it even worse than I did because it felt good not to be on the bottom of the shit pile. School is like prison. People go in good and come out monsters.
By the end of eighth grade I sincerely wished for pain and suffering on the whole world. To this day, I don't much care what happens to people I don't know.
I won't go into high school for certain reasons.
After college ( where I thrived because it is completely different from public school. The people who go there want to be there so there is no prison like atmosphere and people act normal ) I had become less angry and while I don't care much if people I don't know live or die, I don't wish them any particular harm either. I have a life now and happiness and would rather do normal things with the people I love than be some comic book supervillian.
But I still think that the biggest problem with K-12 school is that it is mandatory and full of students who don't want to be there. That makes the administrators set the standards for the lowest trouble making denominator ( like in prison, a similar place where the inmates don't want to be there ) Everything in school and in prison is regulated for people who need a cork on their fork to eat without poking their eye out; both are full of petty rules creating resentment towards the authorities and a desire to make more trouble which in turn causes the administrators to make more petty and oppressive rules causing more hate. And there is no avoiding people you don't like when you can't leave forcing confrontations that would be avoided in the real world.
If school was optional, then the trouble makers who don't want to be there would leave, and come back when they figured out they needed an education to get by in the world with a sincere interest in learning.
One of the things we did was to tell him that we heard him say a swear word and that we were going to report him to the counselors. He would then start crying and saying that he didn't say a swear word, pleading and begging for us not to do it. No other kid at camp would have fallen for this since the counsellors were just stoned out college students working a summer job, and would have said 'yeah whatever' to any such tattle tale. We did this same trick to him dozens of times and would consistently get the same desperately fearful response.
We also used to say 'Boo' to him alot. He would always jump and scream. One did not even have to sneak up on him before saying 'Boo!' to get him to jump. It would work even if he was looking right at you the whole time. If you waited five seconds or so you could 'Boo' him again and he would always jump.
Sometimes we would chant 'spiiiiders' or tell him there were maggots or other bugs on him to get him to squeal real loud. Or rock the canoe. Once he crapped in his pants when some kids did that.
He never seemed to learn that our lame tricks were just tricks and he was very afraid of anything that could remotely be considered scary.
Once I asked him if he was retarded or something because I didn't want to be picking on a retarded person. It was against the moral code I had set for myself, and even offered to kick some asses for him if he was retarded, but he insisted that he was not retarded. I don't think he was retarded since he was normal in other ways but fear and gullibility.
So I tormented him guiltlessly with the other children. I figured that this guy must have been over sheltered or something by his parents and that he needed to learn stop being such a wuss if he was going to survive in the world even if it meant a few tears.
But over sheltering doesn't explain his extreme gullibility and inability to learn to detect the lame pranks we repeatedly tortured him with.
Of course my ( and others ) callous cruelty was inexcusable regardless of whether he admitted to having a certified disease like mental retardation. He was too soft a target for our boredom inspired harassment, and I regret taking part in it. But maybe this is understandable to anyone who has read Lord of the Flies
Kids are cruel to anyone who is different and there were others that got picked on like the time at a sleep over when about 20 kids lined up to jump off the porch railing onto an unfortunate sleeping fat girl who wouldn't wake up from sleeping no matter how many World Wrestling Federation moves the other children tried on her sleeping bag covered body.
I suspected someone would get in trouble so I bugged out early after a few shoves and yelling GET UP a few times, but watched as kids beat on her for a half hour before she finally awoke coughing and crying - barely able to breathe.
Only one kid got in some trouble for that because he was there when the counselors came.
My question for slashdot readers is: Does anyone know of a disease that could make Joe the way he was? Over fearful, socially gullible but otherwise normal?
look at Modragon
Can't look at Modragon all google hits seem to be in french. Did you mean to search fo mondragon? Still foriegn language.
depends on how they have been indoctrinated (umm. socialised)
Typical of a socialist, looking at people from above as if they were stupid animals that can be manupulated with ease by superior social engineers It is impossible to socialize or brainwash people into doing and thinking certain things by changing a few laws. People nowadays can read you know.
Socialism refers to an economic system where the capital (the "means
of production") are controled by those who actually do the work (the
"workers")
This is impossible.
If one day it magically happened then one of two things would happen depending on circumstances( like laws )
1) The workers would be in competition with each other, and some would win out by either gaining positions of power where they could control the resources ( think communist bigwig party men manager types in the old soviet union ) and use that power to increase their own standards of living at the expense of the rest. They would find ways to leverege their power to provide their children with enough advantages to ensure that they could outcompete the children of those under them this forming a new oppressive class system.
2) Normal capitalistic processes processes would allow some lucky and most likely ruthless workers to become wildly successful.( for luck, ruthlessness, and the stupidity to take bad risks that just may turn out very well are the most common attributes of wildly successful people ) These workers would use their capital to amass more capital. Most of the equally stupid and ruthless worker businessmen would have by then lost the capital they started out with by committing the sin of being unlucky and would now need jobs, so they would work for the few ex workers who were lucky, stupid and ruthless enough to strike it rich. Those with money would use their wealth to confer advantages to their children such as wealth and education that would make them able to assume their places in upper class society and easily outcompete the vast majority of the children of the less affluent worker class. Thus creating a new oppressive class system.
If you set property rights as the rules of the game of life, people will seek monetary advantage over each other. If you use force ( ie laws ) to try to impose different rules of the game then people will play according to the rules of that regime in order to gain advantage over each other. To the extent that you try to compromise, people will compete over what advantageous niches are available to them from which they can get as much as they can.
There is no system that can stop people from trying to get what they want.
Source: http://users.rcn.com/zap.dnai/neutron.htm
I think there is a 50% chance of fusing deuterium to make tritium and a neutron and a 50% chance of fucing deuterium to make helium 4 and a gamma ray
Cold fusion has been reproduced by three labs using a Kenmore room fridge.
The discovery was made by chemistry students who accidentally let the pressurized gas out of their acoustic beer cooler and replaced it with the only thing they had on hand a tank of pressurized deuterium. Since the tone producing chip ( a common 555 timer ) of the fridge was smashed by the same idiot who fell over and knocked the tube assembly and the students were too plastered to drive to Radio Shack, the students routed Aretha Franklin's famous R.E.S.P.E.C.T track through the sound circuitry creating fusion.
The three cooked ramen noodles on the heat exchanger of their fridge and smoked some weed but were suprised when the tuble started to glow red and finally burst making a small hydrogen fireball in their dorm room.
The next day the students were all very sick and were admitted to the hospital where they were diagnosed with radiation sickness. Sadly the two that sat in the room next to the cooking noodles died within 48 hours, but the third went back into the room and studied the device. Under more controlled circumstances, he has found that other CDs do not produce neutrons or excess energy and that fusion doesn't start until the first round of 'Sock it to me Sock it to mes'
You could have about 10 robot planetary probes
plus
A superhugemegatokamak
plus
A superhugemegasuperteeduperdoo supercolider
plus
A big honking telescope
plus
Gazillions of smaller science studies whose value would be orders of magnitude more than any of the above super cash $ucking wastes of money
Remember: If you are spending billions of dollars you're doing it wrong.
That trilogy is like one long book split up into three megachapters so they aren't too heavy to hold and read. You'll have to accept the miniseries format because 3 hours is a long time for a movie.
Since the cover of my old copy of TTT has those two kings that the movie Fellowship ended with before Merry and Pippin got snatched, I always thought the two towers were those two kings. Oh well.
If there is a market for support of a piece of open source software someone will provide support for a price. As for closed source there is only one company with access to what is needed to truly support the software - namely the source. As for Windows mandatory upgrades being cheap in comparison to a sys admin I say how many mission critcal windows servers are without a highly paid sys admin to watch bug reports and apply fixes? Sure there may be lots of MS access servers used by a few people here and there that don't get much attention but I'll bet the Exchange servers at your company ( if you run that piece of shit - and there expensive support isn't very great either. They know less about exchange than I do with isn't much but still more than I ever wanted to - no I am not the admin ) I'll bet there are a few people at your company paid primarily to babysit the exchange servers. Sure M$ can point to maintenance tools and say that there in theory SHOULD be no maintanance costs so that studies like this can write a zero on their balance sheet and make M$ look good but in reality Windows servers definately need administration and babysitting. I would say that a decent unix admin could handle the problems and hickups of five or more times as many servers than could a decent Windows admin because there are just less problems to begin with.
What new gizmos and widgets will we get because of it? Antigravity? Cold Fusion? A toaster that won't burn toast?
I always just gave them a fake name and address. Or that of an enemy. I used to sign my next door neighbor up for the Fox 51 Kid's Club over and over again. Also, you can subscribe people to magazines ( like pr0n ) with no money. All you need to do is fill out the business reply card and no CC# is necessary! Imagine subscribing your badass biker neighbors to Cat-Fancy. Subscribe your boss to Hustler and have it sent to him at the office.
Regardless of the fact that a mother has more rights over a child, both the mother and the father have equal legal responibility for a child. Men ( idiots excepted ) do not go around having sex with strange women as if the consequenses to them of getting a girl pregnent were nothing. This isn't the 1800's.
Men know that the consequences are dire if they get a woman pregnant. It could adversely affect the rest of their life. Most women are bimbos though it takes a while to figure that out sometimes. Most are too stupid to do something simple like take a pill every day. ( this is not sexist since most men are bimbos too and are also too stupid to do something simple like take a pill every day )
In our culture sex often comes before you know the person enough to trust them about something as important as birth control. At least with a male pill there will be some assurance for men that there will be no unwanted pregnancies when a woman says "Don't worry I'm on the pill"
Having no popups/popunders on your site will make the banner ads more visible, and more likely to be clicked. It will also increase the number of people that use your site since I never surf a site with popups/popunders with anything that allows them. Why sell pop-space at a premium when you can sell banner ads at a premium since they are not covered up with annoying popads?